North America

DISCUSSION: As wildfires erupted across parts of the intermountain west, there continues to be a growing presence and coincident threat from associated smoke plumes. Here is a very neat perspective of the forecasted smoke concentrations courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service's Experimental Blue Sky Model as shown in the animated graphic below courtesy of the National Weather Service office in Pocatello, Idaho! Note how the orientation of the associated smoke plumes change so quickly in accordance with the change in the environmental wind direction! To learn more about other high-impact weather events from across North America, be sure to click here!